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KEITH: I've seen murders. I've seen dogs come on stage trying to savage people. I've turned round and found a pool of blood where the piano player should be! I've been struck by sharpened pennies.

statement #1: True, but "only" one as far as I know. One is, of course, too many.

#2: Probably talking about Altamont again.

#3: When did this ever happen?

#4: Please educate me on this one. The only pennies I know of are the ones I do not bother to pick up after dropping.

yeah that quote cracks me up as well. He wishes he had been in Platoon rather than the Rolling Stones, or what?

that part about the pool of blood where the piano player was supposed to be....I think that happened in the Brian Jones era.....ya know the Scream Age. I think there was a riot and Stew got taken out by a flying object. I think a "pool" of blood is probably an exaggeration. But I don't remember where this was supposed to have happened or when exactly.

Stu got hit (with a bottle?) during a Stones gig on august 8, 1964 in The Hague.
A pool of blood might be exaggerated, but some bleeding was involved.....

KR is kinda like all of us - the legend gets bigger as time goes by. In his case, though, it's all in public eye. Thank goodness my legend/lies isn't/aren't.

No. I'm not Slash!

Elmo Lewis Wrote:
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> KR is kinda like all of us - the legend gets
> bigger as time goes by. In his case, though, it's
> all in public eye. Thank goodness my legend/lies
> isn't/aren't.

Does that mean I should halt work on my potentially scandalous new website, elmolewisexposed.com?

Nah, we'll just make up some more sh&t!

Elmo Lewis Wrote:
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> Nah, we'll just make up some more sh&t!

Photos don't lie, my friend. Not ones I post, anyway, because I'm not very good at Photoshop.

There was a famous gig in Blackpool, Scottland, July 24th 1964. Some of the audience were not Stones fans. They just came to the concert to beat boredom - and to start a fight against the strange band from London, England.

Someone spitted on stage several times and hitted Brian and Keith. Keith was getting very angry then and kicked the man in the face. After that a riot was going on. The crowd screamed "Scotland, Scotland", entered the stage and destroyed the instruments. Keith was looking toward Ian Stewart, but he wasn't there anymore. Instead of Stu he saw some blood, so Keith also ran backstage and far away.

Charlie was not playing his own drums, he was using those of some support band or local band. These drums were smashed, too, as everything. The police was helpless.

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Of course, I was not there. That's the story written in a book called 'The Rolling Stones - An illustrated documentary' by Roy Carr (1976). I hope, this info might help.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2007-03-12 02:28 by Pokalheld.

I never heard of this book, Pokalheld. Any chance it may still be in print?

Pokalheld Wrote:
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> There was a famous gig in Blackpool, Scottland,
> July 24th 1964. Some of the audience were not
> Stones fans. They just came to the concert to beat
> boredom - and to start a fight against the strange
> band from London, England.
>
> Someone spitted on stage several times and hitted
> Brian and Keith. Keith was getting very angry then
> and kicked the man in the face. After that a riot
> was going on. The crowd screamed "Scotland,
> Scotland", entered the stage and destroyed the
> instruments. Keith was looking toward Ian Stewart,
> but he wasn't there anymore. Instead of Stu he saw
> some blood, so Keith also ran backstage and far
> away.
>
> Charlie was not playing his own drums, he was
> using those of some support band or local band.
> These drums were smashed, too, as everything. The
> police was helpless.
>
> ---
> Of course, I was not there. That's the story
> written in a book called 'The Rolling Stones - An
> illustrated documentary' by Roy Carr (1976). I
> hope, this info might help.

Blackpool, like London, is in England, but the story is substantially correct. Traditionally, the industrial areas of Northwest England and Glasgow etc in Scotland used to close down for a different week or fortnight each summer, and hordes of the workers used to descend on Blackpool (a seaside resort, for the benefit of anyone unaware of same.) It was just the Stones misfortune to be there in Glasgow Week.

You might have to scrape me off the floor at the end of the tour, but it'll be really good scrapings. - Mick Jagger

there was some early-60s show where the cops thought it would be clever
to have a police dog on stage, but it freaked out and had to be taken away.
and the way i recall reading about the Blackpool incident, it wasn't there that Stu got hit with a bottle -
he's the one who strongly urged Keith to get out of there while he was still alive.
there are photos around of Stu with a bandaged head, though - i'd have to look up where exactly it was.
and the sharpened-penny thing was apparently some kind of fashion for a while -
much like jelly beans, but mean.

so yeah: Keith exaggerates, but the quote you've chosen isn't a very good example of it.



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Edith Grove, that book by Roy Carr is out of print, but I think it is not that hard to find on ebay. It is well worth the search. Writing is good, layout and the pics are excellent. I lost my copy once and I could not rest until I got it back.

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

This picture?



Ian got hurt at the Kurhaus show in Scheveningen, 8-8-64, he got hit by a bottle.

From the book 'Van mijn leven niet meer' 1964-1994 The Rolling Stones in Nederland. Thanks for the advice Rooster, it's a great book, I've read it with much pleasure.

The title of the book means something like 'Never Again', the quote of the promotor of the concert, Paul Ackett, when he saw the mess in the Kurhaus in Scheveningen, after the show. Until the eighties, he promoted the Stones-shows here in the Netherlands...

Jelle



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That's a terrible bandage LOL. Hey, doesn't Stu look pretty handsome here? Sort of like Morrissey?

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

Han Wrote:
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>> Blackpool, like London, is in England, but the
> story is substantially correct. Traditionally, the
> industrial areas of Northwest England and Glasgow
> etc in Scotland used to close down for a different
> week or fortnight each summer, and hordes of the
> workers used to descend on Blackpool (a seaside
> resort, for the benefit of anyone unaware of
> same.) It was just the Stones misfortune to be
> there in Glasgow Week.



a woman I used to work with was actually at that show (she was a teenager on holiday in Blackpool at the time) and told me how bad it was. The stories about that riot were definitely not exaggerated. Brian ended up thrown from the stage and landed in front of her.

A week later she was home and got to see the Stones in Belfast - that gig was abandoned due to a riot after about ten minutes.

About the last one, people are always throwing shit at the stage, shoes, shirts, whatever they have.... maybe more so at the beginning I don't know.